Game Preview: Borneo

By Andrea “Liga” Ligabue & W. Eric Martin
September 25, 2007

Publisher: daVinci Games / Lucca Comics & Games
Designer: Paolo Mori
Artwork: Alberto Bontempi
Players: 3-5
Ages: 10+
Playing Time: 30-45 minutes
Languages: Italian / English* / German*
Release Date: October 2007 / 2008 (see below)

Set in Europe during the XVII century, Borneo is a game about merchants, ships and spices. Each player tries to have his merchants in the right place at the right moment when one of the different sea companies starts loading the cargo for an expedition.

This card game by Paolo Mori, whose first published title was UR in 2006, won the Best Unpublished Game (BUG) contest—the Gioco Inedito—held annually by daVinci Editrice and Lucca Comics & Games, a famous Italian convention for gamers and comic readers. As with Lucca Città and Oriente, two previous daVinci publications, Borneo was chosen from among dozens of other game prototypes to be developed and published.

Players will first be able to get their hands on the 110 cards in Borneo at the Spiel game convention in Essen, Germany in mid-October. The rulebook included in the box will be in Italian, but English and German rulebooks will be available at the time of purchase or as a download from the daVinci Games website. The minimal text on the cards is in English, Italian and German. This version will be a limited-edition release, and the international edition will follow in a few months.

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	The cover
	The cards

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